Gospel of Thomas

Sharing the Gospel with Joe will be different than the manner I normally share. I rarely encounter people who deny any belief of God. Joe who has told be Catholicism was in his childhood, but is something he does not practice as an adult has also shared he does not attend church and has not accepted any of my invitations to visit my church. HE has indicated a desire to socialize with me, hence my invitations to church. I have come to realize he is seeking to establish a relationship with me…

Delving into the Old Testament and learning about the sacrificial offerings that occurred in the temples of old opened my eyes to their symbolism and direct relation to Christ. I loved how they each were significant in keeping God’s people close to Him. We are fallen beings, but if we do as He commands, we’ll be able to stay on the path. The burnt offerings compensated for sins of commission, the offerings of purification for sins of omission, grain offerings for tribute, fellowship offerings…

Life is sweet, but life is hard. In “The Tyger” and “The Lamb” by William Blake, the speaker expresses a conflicted attitude towards God and the two poems differ in their tone towards God and all of his creations. The speaker, a follower of the christian faith, creates a powerful tone through the use of diction, imagery, and repetition in “The Tyger” and “The Lamb.” Both poems have conflicting attitudes toward God, for “The Lamb” creates a confident and passionate tone while “The Tyger”…

with you? In the gospel, Jesus was the one who ordered the disciples to go on without him. He dismissed them and when they are far off the land, they were being tossed by the waves because the wind was against the boat they were in. If you look closer, even though it was Jesus’ plan, they are all alone and everything was against them. In our life, do not be afraid if you cannot see God with you in times of darkest because what if, it’s still God’s plan after all? In the gospel, Jesus’ brilliant…

Ragamuffin Gospel Reflection Reading the Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning was a challenge; while I agreed with his thoughts and feeling the style in which it was written I found to be very cumbersome. Then this feeling of being critical of the writing made me feel guilty because the subject and the topic is so important and many individuals give the book very high reviews. I much prefer a local Springfield, Missouri author named Jennifer Rothschild; Jennifer is a nationally renowned author…

Purpose of an Education promoting shalom Mercy Ann Ranjan Introduction: Looking at the root Hebrew meaning for shalom we see in the Old Testament, the root word is found in many Semitic languages. The Akkadian salamu comes closest to the root meaning “whole or complete” (The Anchor Bible Dictionary, 1992, pp 206). According to the New Testament, it is referred that the Hebrews tended to use the term primarily for interpersonal or social relations where it comes very close to meaning “Justice.”…

Senior classes were given the assignment to write a horror story and allowed no restriction. As soon as I heard of this assignment I thought, “Yes! Finally my chance to show people how gory and gruesome of things I can imagine!” I told my youth minister of this assignment and the next thing he said was, “That sounds ungodly”. I started thinking and realized how ungodly it really was. Then, he told me, “You should write about the rapture and the people that will be left behind, now that’s…

The book of Jonah is different than most of the other prophetic books. Although Jonah is a prophetic book, it is written mainly in narrative form. All the chapters, with the exception of chapter two are written in narrative form. In chapter three of the book, the author used a variety of literary devices to move the plot of the narrative along. In this paper I will examine the literary form and features; discuss any important grammatical points; and perform the triangulation method on three…

The last supper is one of the most iconic biblical moments. While dining during the jewish holiday of passover, he prophesies that one of his disciples will betray him. This comes true and the most defining part of christianity takes place, the crucifixion. Three days later he returns to life. The crucifixion marks a point where Jesus turns from man to legend, and the last supper the final moments of his mortality. While the Last Suppers painted by Leonardo and Tintoretto take place at the same…

The dual store model of memory is classified into three categories which are sensory registry, short-term memory, and long-term memory. Each of these categories has a different processing role within the brain of human. Therefore, this process is known as human information processing (HIP) that allows individuals understanding the amount of information that each category can retrieve, store within, and put out (Dr. Gadomski, M., 2017). Ormrod (2016) states being exposed to new information does…